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  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  from a list of 12 diverse pieces for our project on improvisation. I ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... ) and provide evidence of the completion of my music concentration (3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my ... catalogue. 18.310 (Principles of Applied Mathematics) Study of illustrative ... . Chebyshev inequality, law of large numbers, and central limit theorem. My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http ... importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  new half means a feeling of freshness added to old experiences. I ... It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  put lower on my priority list. On the other hand, I found plenty of ... ! Images not for the faint-hearted. Spiraling out of control. - Now is ... doing any of those things once I got here. At the same time, it seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  winners of the inaugural Dean's List. The Dean's List Award honors "FIRST ... Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish ... Recognition of Science and Technology) was founded by inventor Dean Kamen and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you ... a source of academic knowledge that might help me with my courses and ... I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  metallic unison, adding methodical rhythm to the chaotic hum of the crickets ... once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... : These “I dont know” conversations have been about both of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed ... a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  indecisive student: I end up adding and dropping a couple of classes every ... the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... dusty stripe of stars from Boston. Today, as you probably already know

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  listing sets of assignments. Click on the one that's due next and you are ... . I've taken the liberty of listing such attributes: 1) It's extra work ... that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  ="1000"] proof of life (credits: Arun W. '23; Eric Z., Harvard '23)[/caption] So, in spite of it all, we’re still alive, and we're still writing ... sweet and eventual embrace of death that comes for us all. But, at least

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  . :) --- I will most certainly be at all of the events listed above (the actual ... last two days have been nothing short of gorgeous (it's SEVENTY ... to be cold and rainy during the first two days of CPW :( ) Yes, you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wrappers added, for good measure.[/annotation] I quickly piled all of my ... remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing ... between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  the end. I miss it all. A Simple Bucket List Wish I was one of THOSE ... become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... every step forward with humility. And while all of those moments and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  descriptive than listing a bunch of random sports that any one of several ... figure we can each only type fast enough to catch half of what he says, so between our two entries you'll get either ALL of what he says or half of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , Alabama. If you came to one of these meetings, I hope you'll leave a comment to say hi! Our focus is now turning to the Class of 2012. We still have some more work to do on the Class of 2011 (no waitlist news yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007